(n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
(n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
(n.) A small jackscrew.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests that (AGG)12 can form intra- and inter-molecular complexes by non-Watson-Crick, guanine:guanine base-pairing.
(2) It is demonstrated that this peculiar DNA fragment, under suitable conditions of concentration, salt and temperature, exclusively prefers to adopt a monomeric hairpin form with a stem of three Watson-Crick type base pairs and a loop of two residues.
(3) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
(4) The new Francis Crick Institute in London, now filling with 1,400 scientists, could be built and run for 10 years on that.
(5) The Watson-Crick H-bonded imino proton resonances were studied.
(6) The Watson-Crick alignment of the alkylG.T and alkylT.G mispairs may facilitate formation of these phosphodiester links, and this alignment rather than the strength of the base pairs and the extent of hydrogen bonding between them may be the crucial factor in the miscoding.
(7) The complex has one drug molecule intercalated between Watson--Crick base pairs of the nucleotide duplex.
(8) Recognition of the UACUAAC box thus relies, at least in part, on Watson-Crick base pairing with the yeast U2 analogue.
(9) A characteristic of Watson-Crick paired A X T and G X C bases is the pseudo 2-fold symmetry axis in the plane of the base pairs.
(10) The imino proton of T3 in the O6meG.T 12-mer and G3 in the O6meG.N 12-mer helix, which are associated with the modification site, resonate at unusually high field (8.5 to 9.0 ppm) compared to imino protons in Watson-Crick base pairs (12.5 to 14.5 ppm).
(11) We’d get recognised when we went out, and I developed a bad crick in my spine because I was staring at the pavement so much.
(12) The base pairing between piA and poly(U) in this system is probably of the Hoogsteen type (involving the 6-amino group and N7 of 3-isoadenosine) rather than of the Watson-Crick type.
(13) One of these models is a four-strand structure in which two duplexes of the Watson-Crick kind are specifically related by a twofold rotation axis and which has already been discussed in some detail.
(14) Nurse, too, believes the Crick is built on solid foundations.
(15) Molecular modeling shows that a stereochemically satisfactory structure can be build using C2'-endo sugars and a displacement of the Watson-Crick base-pair center from the helix axis of 2.5 A. Helical constraints of rise per residue (h = 3.26 A) and residues per turn (n = 12) were taken from fiber diffraction experiments of Arnott and Selsing (1974).
(16) The temperature variation of the imino proton NMR signals suggests that the hydrogen bonding in self-recognition is comparable in strength with that in a beta-DNA duplex, and NOE data are in accord with Watson-Crick rather than Hoogsteen base pairing.
(17) We describe NMR studies at superconducting fields which characterize aspects of the structure and stability of the 1 : 2 actinomycin-d-pG-C complex in solution as monitored at the Watson-Crick base pairs and backbone phosphate groups.
(18) From fibre diffraction data, models for triplex structures with poly(U).poly(A).poly(U) and poly(dT).poly(dA).poly(dT) have been proposed, in which the purine and one pyrimidine strand are Watson-Crick paired in an A' helix, and the other pyrimidine strand is Hoogsteen base-paired parallel to the purine strand along the major groove.
(19) The peptide forms a parallel, two-stranded coiled coil of alpha helices packed as in the "knobs-into-holes" model proposed by Crick in 1953.
(20) 7.09pm: On his blog, Newsnight's Michael Crick quotes an unnamed Liberal Democrat MP who told him he was amazed how much the Tories were willing to compromise.
Village
Definition:
(n.) A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(3) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(4) At the village level health care is provided at integrated service posts staffed by volunteers trained to treat common health problems with simple means such as treating diarrhea with oral rehydration.
(5) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(6) A spokesman for the UNHCR said that while there were many agencies working in Walungu, they had "minimal presence" in villages close to areas still occupied by Hutu militias known as FDLR.
(7) The study design of a project to investigate the epidemiology, population dynamics and control of intestinal nematode infections in fishing village communities in Southern India is described.
(8) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
(9) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(10) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
(11) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
(12) There was no immediate comment from Turkish authorities about the incident, which occurred in the village of Atima, across the border from the Turkish village of Bukulmez in Hatay province.
(13) Activists said the alleged massacre came a day after 72 were killed at the nearby village of Bayda .
(14) A village will be subject to rigorous evaluations in order to demonstrate sustainability and scalability, and that aid developed with an exit strategy can actually work.
(15) Mass drug administration via 3 modes of delivery reduced the incidence and prevalence rates and intensity of Brugia malayi infection in 3 rural villages in the Bengkoka Peninsula, Sabah, in 1982-1983.
(16) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(17) After 12-14 years of control the community microfilarial load (CMFL) was close to zero in all villages.
(18) Our subjects were young adults born between November 1960 and December 1962 to persons living in 10 villages in southwestern Alaska.
(19) In two experimental subdistricts, researchers observed the work of family welfare assistants (FWAs), the female family planning field-workers, to determine the duration and frequency of their home visits with village women and the content of their exchanges.
(20) He is just 17 years old and came back to his parents in the village after the Ebola virus closed our schools.